Psalter Lane Methodist Church And Adjoining Steps And Walls

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SK3385NE PSALTER LANE 784-1/36/605 (South East side) 09/04/92 Psalter Lane Methodist Church and adjoining steps and walls

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Methodist church and adjoining steps and flanking walls. c1915. Random rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs topped with an octagonal wooden bell turret with copper clad octagonal spire. Perpendicular Revival style. PLAN: nave, chancel, vestries, transepts, west towers, west porch. EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, string course, crenellated parapets, coped gables. Windows are mainly pointed arch with hoodmoulds. Single bay chancel has a single square headed window on each side, and to east, a 5-light window. Adjoining single storey vestries have single light and mullioned windows to south. Larger vestry, to north, has two 3-light mullioned windows to east and to north, a canted bay window flanked by similar 3-light windows. Transepts have traceried 5-light windows to north and south, flanked by buttresses. Nave has on either side 3 traceried 3-light windows. West gable has a wide 7-light window divided by buttresses. On either side, an octagonal tower, 2 stages, with string courses and plain coped parapet. Lower stages have, to west, a lozenge-shaped window, and to north and south, a flat-headed 2-light window with a small round window above it. Upper stages have 4 single light windows. Canted single storey west porch has 2 chamfered segmental pointed doors under a stepped flat gable flanked by buttresses with pinnacles. Double board doors with traceried overlights. Beyond, single light windows. INTERIOR: moulded chancel arch with chamfered responds. Chancel has panelled dado and wagon roof with exposed rafters. East end has stained glass window. North side has door and stained glass window. South side has moulded arch containing traceried latticework organ case. Nave has arch braced wagon roof with wall shafts and shield corbels. 3 bay arcades with plain chamfered arches and octagonal piers. West end has stained glass window and below, close-studded internal porch with latticework crest. Central glazed double doors with overlights, flanked by single 2-light windows. Narrow aisles have crosswise arches and 3 stained glass windows. At the west ends, half-glazed panelled doors. Transepts have common rafter roofs and plain arches with octagonal piers. 5-light stained glass windows. North transept has segmental pointed door to east. South transept has similar door flanked to left by a moulded arch containing organ pipes. Top lit entrance lobby has segmental pointed half-glazed doors, and at either end, a cloakroom with elaborate original fittings. FITTINGS include traceried octagonal ashlar font, traceried octagonal oak pulpit with sounding board and curved stair, and carved wooden lectern. Panelled oak stalls and benches. All early C20. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, 2 flights of ashlar steps, the lower flight with canted flanking walls carrying cast-iron lamp standards.

Listing NGR: SK3389685548